By Contributing Columnist Donavan Hall In the last couple of days I’ve made partial rounds of our Island’s brewpubs to see what the brewers have on tap for us this holiday season. John Harvard’s in Lake Grove has my favorite locally brewed holiday ale, the Holiday Red. The best thing about this ale is that it’s fully bodied, malty, and isn’t a spice tea. You might recall how much I like pumpkin spice ales from my last contribution. I would probably like spiced beers more if the spices were used more subtly to finesse the beer’s natural flavor rather than…
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Long Island Pumpkin Ales — Too Much About the Spice?
By Contributing Columnist Donavan Hall Over the last week or so, the weather on Long Island turned cool. A few of the trees in my yard took this as a signal to start dropping their leaves — my yard is littered with auburn, brown, garnet and orange. The signs of Fall are everywhere. Last weekend, I took my family to the Garlic Festival (see Denise’s article on Growers and Grocers), the second in what might prove to be an annual event. In addition to last weekend being a celebration of garlic (I was seriously tempted to brew a garlic beer…